Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockref: make lockref count signed

2014-08-05 Thread Steven Noonan
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:44 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:52:27 -0700 Steven Noonan > wrote: > >> There are numerous places where this is casted to a signed value anyway, for >> comparisons checking that the value hasn't been set to the 'dead' value of >> -128. This change turns t

Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockref: make lockref count signed

2014-08-05 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:52:27 -0700 Steven Noonan wrote: > There are numerous places where this is casted to a signed value anyway, for > comparisons checking that the value hasn't been set to the 'dead' value of > -128. This change turns the count value into a signed integer, which is how > it's